HTC-DesireC user guide

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Personalizing

Making HTC Desire C truly yours

Make HTC Desire C look and sound just the way you want it. Personalize it with a different wallpaper, skin, ringtone, and notification sound for events such as incoming text, email, and calendar reminders.

Personalizing HTC Desire C with scenes

HTC Desire C becomes multiple phones in one when you use scenes. Scenes are personalized Home screen layouts that you can quickly apply. By switching between scenes, you instantly turn HTC Desire C into your perfect weekend phone, travel phone, work phone, or pure play phone.

Everytime you add or modify something on the Home screen, HTC Desire C automatically saves your changes to the current scene selected.

Using a preset scene

HTC Desire C features preset scenes, each preconfigured with a different wallpaper and collection of widgets that reflect different moments in your life. You can choose a scene that is suitable for work, play, travel, or your social life.

1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap > Personalize.

2. On the Display tab, tap Scene.

3. Slide your finger on the screen from right to left to select the scene you want.

4. Tap Apply.

Creating a new scene

You’ll start with an empty Home screen when you create a new scene.

1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap > Personalize.

2. On the Display tab, tap Scene.

3. Tap > New.

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4. Enter a new scene name, and then tap Done.

5. Personalize the scene by adding widgets and apps, changing the wallpaper, and more. All of your changes will be automatically saved to this scene.

Renaming a scene

1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap > Personalize.

2. On the Display tab, tap Scene.

3. Slide your finger on the screen from right to left to select the scene you want to rename.

4. Press and hold a scene thumbnail, and then tap Rename.

5. Enter a new scene name.

6. Tap Done.

Deleting scenes

1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap > Personalize.

2. On the Display tab, tap Scene.

3. Tap > Delete.

4. Slide your finger on the screen from right to left to browse through scenes, then tap one or more scenes you want to delete.

5. Tap Delete.

Changing your wallpaper

Pick your favorite photo as your Home wallpaper. Choose from the available wallpapers, or use any photo you've taken with the camera.

1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap > Personalize.

2. On the Display tab, tap Wallpaper.

3. Tap one of the following:

Gallery

HTC wallpapers

4. Tap Save or Apply.

Choose an existing photo and crop it.

Choose a preset wallpaper, and then tap Preview.

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Applying a new skin

Personalize beyond the Home screen by applying a new skin. Skins give a different look and feel to most onscreen buttons, application screens, option menus, and other items.

1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap > Personalize.

2. On the Display tab, tap Skin.

3. Slide your finger on the screen from right to left to select the skin you want.

4. Tap Apply.

Personalizing your Home screen with widgets

Widgets put at-a-glance important information and media content up front on your

Home screen. Some widgets are already added to your Home screen for your convenience. You can add more from the available selections of widgets.

Adding a widget to your Home screen

1. Press and hold on an empty space on your Home screen.

2. On the Widgets tab, you can:

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Slide left or right to browse through the complete set of widgets.

§ Tap to search for specific widgets.

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Tap All Widgets to choose from a selection menu.

Some widgets are available in different styles and sizes.

3. Drag a widget to a home screen thumbnail where you want to add it.

You can also add widgets that allow you to quickly switch on or off certain settings such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Tap All Widgets > Settings, and then tap the widget that you want.

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Changing the settings of a widget

You can modify basic settings of some widgets (for example, the People and Mail widgets) from the Home screen.

1. Press and hold a widget on your Home screen, and then drag it to .

The relevant screen where you can change some settings for this widget then opens.

2. Customize the widget settings.

Resizing a widget

Some widgets can be resized after you've added them to your Home screen.

1. Press and hold a widget on the Home screen, and then release your finger. If you see directional arrow buttons appear on the widget, that means the widget is resizable.

2. Drag an arrow button to enlarge or shrink the widget size.

Adding apps and other shortcuts on your

Home screen

Place apps you often use on your Home screen. You can also add shortcuts to frequently used settings, bookmarked webpages, and more.

1. Press and hold on an empty space on your Home screen.

2. On the Apps or Shortcuts tab, choose whether to add an app or a shortcut.

To add an app, you can also tap , press and hold an app, and then drag it to an empty area on your Home screen.

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Rearranging or removing widgets and icons on your Home screen

Moving a widget or icon

1. Press and hold the widget or icon you want to move.

2. Drag the widget or icon to a new location on the screen.

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You can pause at the left or right edge of the screen to drag the widget or icon onto another Home screen panel.

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When you drag a widget to a spot that’s already occupied by another widget or icon, the occupant automatically moves away to give room.

3. When the widget or icon is where you want it, lift your finger.

Removing a widget or icon

1. Press and hold the widget or icon you want to remove, and then drag it to .

2. When the widget or icon turns red, lift your finger.

Personalizing the launch bar

The launch bar on your Home screen gives you one-touch access to commonly used apps. You can replace the apps on the launch bar with other apps you often use.

1. Press and hold the app you want to replace, and then drag it out of the launch bar.

2. Tap to go to the All apps screen.

3. Press and hold an app, and then drag it to the empty slot on the launch bar.

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You can also place shortcuts to settings or information on the launch bar. Add a shortcut first to the Home screen, and then drag it to the launch bar.

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The apps or shortcuts you see on the lock screen are the same as the ones on the launch bar.

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Grouping apps into a folder

Use folders to group apps on the launch bar or your Home screen to free up space so you can add more apps.

1. Press and hold an app, and then drag it over to another app to automatically create a folder.

2. Tap the folder to open it.

3. Tap .

4. Select one or more apps that you want to add to the folder.

5. Tap Add.

You can also add shortcuts to settings or information. Add a shortcut first to the

Home screen, and then drag it over to the folder.

Renaming a folder

1. Tap the folder to open it.

2. Tap the folder window’s title bar.

3. Enter a new folder name.

4. Tap outside the folder to close it.

Removing items from a folder

1. Tap the folder to open it.

2. Press and hold an app or shortcut, and then drag it out to to remove it.

Repeat this process to remove more items.

If there's only one item left in the folder, the folder ungroups the last item and removes itself automatically.

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Personalizing with sound sets

Each sound set gives you a different combination of sounds for your ringtone and notifications such as incoming messages, email, calendar event reminders, and more.

By switching between sound sets, you can instantly make HTC Desire C ring or alert you with fun sounds when you're out with friends or change to subtle sounds while you're at work.

Creating a sound set

1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap > Personalize.

2. On the Sound tab, tap Sound set.

3. On the Sound sets screen, tap .

4. Enter a new sound set name, and then tap Done.

The newly created sound set is then added to the list of sound sets. You can assign different tones to the sound set to your preference.

Changing your ringtone, notifications, and sounds

1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap > Personalize.

2. On the Sound tab, tap Sound set.

3. Choose a sound set you want to customize, or create a new one, and then tap

Apply.

4. Change the ringtone, notification sound, and alarm from the Personalize screen.

Go to the Messages, Mail, and Calendar apps to choose sounds for new messages, email, and calendar reminders respectively.

HTC Desire C automatically saves your choices to the current sound set.

Deleting sound sets

1. Slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap > Personalize.

2. On the Sound tab, tap Sound set.

3. Tap .

4. Select one or more sound sets you want to delete.

5. Tap Delete.

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Rearranging application tabs

You can rearrange the tabs at the bottom of some apps to prioritize the types of information you frequently use. You can also add or remove tabs.

1. Open an app that has the usual tabs at the bottom of its screen.

2. Press and hold the current tab until the screen changes and shows a message about rearranging tabs.

If you don't see any tabs on the app, tap > Edit tabs.

3. You can:

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Change the order of the tabs. Press and hold a tab, and then drag it to its new position.

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Drag a tab into or out of the bottom row to add or remove it.

4. When you’re done, press .